Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Any of several fishes related to the weakfish.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A salt-water sciænoid fish, Cynoscion regalis (formerly
Otolithus regalis ), also called weakfish, sea-salmon, and sea-trout in common with some other members of the same genus.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Zoöl.) An American sciænoid fish (
Cynoscion regalis ), abundant on the Atlantic coast of the United States, and much valued as a food fish. It is of a bright silvery color, with iridescent reflections. Called alsoweakfish ,squitee ,chickwit , andsea trout . The spotted squeteague (Cynoscion nebulosus ) of the Southern United States is a similar fish, but the back and upper fins are spotted with black. It is called alsospotted weakfish andsquit , and, locally,sea trout , andsea salmon . See also undersquitee .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A silvery
edible American sciaenoid fish (Cynoscion regalis).
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Weakfish, also called squeteague and spotted sea trout are also trickling in and M&D's Bait and Tackle reported that Richard Jordan of Marion weighed-in a
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Fyke nets are the only remaining apparatus used commercially in taking fish, and these are only sparingly employed in Dare and Sampson counties, where they catch small quantities of catfish, mullet, perch, red horse, sheepshead, striped bass, and squeteague.
North Carolina and its Resources. North Carolina. Board of Agriculture. 1896
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The aggregate catch was 380,375 pounds, having a value of $13,003, the principal species being hogfish and squeteague.
North Carolina and its Resources. North Carolina. Board of Agriculture. 1896
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I rigged a line for Miss Margie, and she soon brought into the boat without help, which she would not allow any one to give, a sea-trout, similar to the squeteague or weakfish, but not the same thing.
Down South or, Yacht Adventure in Florida Oliver Optic 1859
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"Cousin Phineas brought us more squeteague than we can eat.
Sheila of Big Wreck Cove A Story of Cape Cod James A. Cooper 1917
she commented on the word squeteague
The weak-fish or sea-salmon, Cynoscion regalis (formerly Otolithus regalis, Labrus Squeteague), of the eastern United States.
August 9, 2008